{"id":4982,"date":"2012-07-02T10:14:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2012-07-02T10:14:40","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:14:40","slug":"alles-gute-zum-geburtstag-mein-lieber-hermann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/alles-gute-zum-geburtstag-mein-lieber-hermann\/","title":{"rendered":"Alles gute zum Geburtstag, mein lieber Hermann!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read everything by Hesse in college, all in English, most in German. The one exception was his magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game <\/em>— I just couldn\u2019t get into it in either language. As for many, Siddhartha and Steppenwolf moved me deeply. (I can wait and I still taste the mix of blood and chocolate and see myself in shards of a broken mirror.) One can hardly imagine more different books, except for Hesse\u2019s conflicted outsider fixation.<\/p>\n

Everyone should think about how Hesse\u2019s work came to mean so much decades later. We toss a stone in water and never see all the ripples. mjh<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n

New England Weather by Archibald MacLeish | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Today is the birthday of Hermann Hesse<\/a><\/strong> (books by this author<\/a>), born in Calw, Germany, in 1877. In 1911, he took a trip to India and started studying Eastern religions, and ancient Hindu and Chinese cultures. His travels inspired his novel Siddhartha, <\/em>about the early life of Gautama Buddha. It became popular among the counterculture movement of the 1960s, more than 40 years after it was published. <\/p>\n

He said: "The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

New England Weather by Archibald MacLeish | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read everything by Hesse in college, all in English, most in German. The one exception was his magnum opus, The Glass Bead Game — I just couldn\u2019t get into it in either language. As for many, Siddhartha and Steppenwolf moved me deeply. (I can wait and I still taste the mix of blood and … Continue reading Alles gute zum Geburtstag, mein lieber Hermann!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-atheists-pulpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4983,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/4983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}